GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

 

 

CHAPTER 966

SENATE BILL 1121

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE CABARRUS COUNTY TO ACQUIRE LAND FOR ROAD RIGHTS-OF-WAY FOR CONNECTORS BETWEEN SUBDIVISIONS AND CONNECTORS BETWEEN SUBDIVISIONS AND STATE-MAINTAINED ROADS BY DEDICATION AND ACCEPTANCE, PURCHASE, OR EMINENT DOMAIN.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Cabarrus County may acquire land for road rights-of-way for connectors serving county or other public facilities or in the vicinity thereof between subdivisions and connectors between subdivisions and State-maintained roads by dedication and acceptance, purchase, or eminent domain.

Sec. 2.  Cabarrus County may appropriate and spend up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) per project under this act but in no event shall total expenditures for all projects exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per annum.

Sec. 3.  In order to fund acquisitions authorized by Section 1, Cabarrus County may use non-ad valorem tax revenues and any other revenues not otherwise restricted by law, including funds authorized by vote of the citizens, to fund the acquisition costs for a project.

Sec. 4.  Cabarrus County may accept donations and dedication of land or rights-of-way for the purposes set forth in Section 1.

Sec. 5.  Nothing in this act shall be construed to limit or otherwise interfere with the rights and privileges of the Board of Transportation with respect to any project which is under the authority and control of the Board of Transportation or to authorize or require Cabarrus County to undertake actual construction or improvement of streets, highways, or thoroughfares.

Sec. 6.  This act is effective upon ratification and expires July 1, 1995.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 1992.

 

James C. Gardner

President of the Senate

 

Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives